Has anybody tried their HA in their implant ear?

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I don't understand what the big deal is as far as preserving residual hearing. If someone qualifies for a CI, they don't have alot of residual hearing to begin with. I know deafdude will dispute this, but I'm talking about the majority of CI candidates -- not the minority.
 
Just checked Miss Kat. She heard. She heard me say the Ling sounds. I don't have any idea how well she could hear, but she repeated back "Ahhhh" and "ba ba ba" to me. She told me she could hear.
 
Hear with her HA in her CI ear?
 
faire_jour said:
Just checked Miss Kat. She heard. She heard me say the Ling sounds. I don't have any idea how well she could hear, but she repeated back "Ahhhh" and "ba ba ba" to me. She told me she could hear.
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That's quite a bit of residual hearing to have left post-CI. Obviously she didn't lose any of her hearing following CI surgery.
 
Wow I probably wouldnt be able to hear that much in my CI ear, at the moment all I can hear is a whistling but I need to try again
 
Hear Again said:
That's quite a bit of residual hearing to have left post-CI. Obviously she didn't lose any of her hearing following CI surgery.
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I was very close to her and I said it moderatly loud. I would say her residual hearing is still in there. It makes sense with some behavior I have seen too. She can hear that my husband yells downstairs to me when her devices are off, I had thought that it was just the one ear, but it would even happen when she was laying in bed on that ear.
 
By the way, when I had CI surgery, I didn't expect to retain any of my residual hearing. As a result, I wasn't shocked or disappointed when I found out that I'm totally deaf without my CIs.
 
Deafteen90 said:
Wow I probably wouldnt be able to hear that much in my CI ear, at the moment all I can hear is a whistling but I need to try again
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Miss Kat had "a lot" of residual hearing when she was implanted. You probably didn't.
 
faire_jour said:
I was very close to her and I said it moderatly loud. I would say her residual hearing is still in there. It makes sense with some behavior I have seen too. She can hear that my husband yells downstairs to me when her devices are off, I had thought that it was just the one ear, but it would even happen when she was laying in bed on that ear.
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That's still alot of residual hearing.
 
Why did you get Miss Kat a CI if she can hear quite well in that ear? Just out of curiousity
 
Deafteen90 said:
Why did you get Miss Kat a CI if she can hear quite well in that ear? Just out of curiousity
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She had a severe to profound loss and 0 speech understanding. She knew the words "Katrina" (she thought it was Ah-ee-na, since she could only hear the vowels) "mama", "daddy", and "baby". Her loss was progressing very quickly. She had normal hearing at 6 months old, but by 18 months it was at 60 db. By 4 1/2 it hit the 90's. She could hear "moderate" (60 db) at 250 hz but it dropped to 90's any higher and actually hit 105 at 2000 hz. She was missing the VAST majority of speech sounds.

She was a good candidate and she hears and understands speech now, which she couldn't before.
 
faire_jour,

If Miss Kat had 0% speech understanding pre-CI, how was she able to repeat back the Ling sounds you said to her today?
 
Hear Again said:
I thought you said she had 80% single word understanding?
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No. With a closed set of 4-6, with very different words, that you introduce to her with pictures, she could get 80%.

Like if I have an airplane, a window, hotdog, toothbrush, and baby. I show her each picture and say the word to her. Then do the test. Then she could get 80%.

But in everyday language, or randomly, nothing...
 
Hear Again said:
faire_jour,

If Miss Kat had 0% speech understanding pre-CI, how was she able to repeat back the Ling sounds you said to her today?
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Repeating back "ahhh, oooo, eeee, ssss, shhhh, and mmmmm," isn't understanding, it is parroting.
 
faire_jour said:
Repeating back "ahhh, oooo, eeee, ssss, shhhh, and mmmmm," isn't understanding, it is parroting.
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Then why do audis use Ling sounds in AVT to guage one's ability to hear?

If Miss Kat can tell what Ling sounds you're producing (parroting or not), she's obviously hearing them.
 
faire_jour said:
No. With a closed set of 4-6, with very different words, that you introduce to her with pictures, she could get 80%.
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That's still hearing. Pictures do not change Miss Kat's ability to hear. They only change the way she identifies what she can or can't hear.
 
You have to be able to understand to hear. Like if my mum says something I have to understand what is being said to be able to repeat it.
 
faire_jour said:
Like if I have an airplane, a window, hotdog, toothbrush, and baby. I show her each picture and say the word to her. Then do the test. Then she could get 80%.
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That's still 80% speech understanding -- not 0%.
 
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